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The Master in International Criminal Justice, promoted and organized by the International Criminal Bar (BPI-ICB) presents its first edition taught as Own Title of the Foundation of the Rovira i Virgili University, the public university of Tarragona (Spain), with professors from various European and American universities.

It is a professional Master, not oriented to doctoral research. Its itinerary seeks the highest professional training in the internal and international areas of the International Criminal Justice.

The teaching is virtual, only nuanced with a period of 2 weeks of practical training in Tarragona and The Hague, with work sessions in the main institutions of international justice. Exceptionally, and with the consideration of the Academic Committee, this period will be validated by accredited comparable activities.

The master has a teaching load of 60 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) which is equivalent to 600 hours of work. Each credit is equivalent to 25 hours of student work. The evaluation is continuous, thus promoting the progress and the high acquisition of knowledge and skills of the students.

The Master has been rigorously designed with a balanced distribution of work, to make it compatible with professional life, organized in three quarters, from April 2018 to May 2019, with a period of two weeks of practices in the field, in June 2019 and the defense of the Final Work in September 2019.

The first edition is aimed at a small number of students (maximum of 30) to guarantee the best teaching quality, personal tutoring, personal work, and a high acquisition of knowledge and skills by the student. The selection of the students will be made by the Academic Commission on the basis of the academic and professional curriculums of the candidates.

Conditions of access: The Master is designed for law graduates, although, exceptionally, the Academic Committee may admit students with other qualifications that demonstrate knowledge and / or experience in International Criminal Justice.

This first edition will be taught in Spanish, but all students must demonstrate sufficient skills to work with texts and documents in English (level B2.1)

The professors selected in various European and American universities include a select group of academic experts in the field, as well as personnel at the service of international legal institutions.

GENERAL INFORMATION

CREDITS

PLACES

This year, a maximum of 30 students will be accepted in the Master, in order to guarantee the quality of the same.

PRICE

5.000 Euros.

DATES

From April 2018 to September 2019.

LANGUAGE

The first edition will be taught in Spanish, but all students have to be able to work with documents in English (level B1). The second edition will be activated, in parallel to the course in Spanish, exclusively in English.

VIRTUAL MANAGEMENT CENTER

Virtual Master. The only on-site classes will be given in the final practices (2/3 week stay in Tarragona / The Hague), but with an option -exceptional- of exemption which will be replaced by other activities.

RECIPIENTS

RECIPIENTS

Mainly intended for lawyers, -especially those who already are in practice-, interested in obtaining a high level of training in the field of International Criminal Law as well as in related subjects such as international protection of Human Rights or International Humanitarian Law. Exceptionally, the Academic Committee may admit students with other degrees that demonstrate knowledge and / or experience in International Criminal Justice.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Graduate Degree or Law Degree. All the students of the master must have at least level B2.1 in English (the same level of French is recommended).

At the time of the pre-registration, the candidate will pay an amount of 100 euros. This amount guarantees the preservation of your place as a student of the Master. Likewise, you will become an individual member of the International Criminal Bar during the two year period of the Master's Degree (which means a 50% reduction in the fee). If the enrollment with the Rovira i Virgili University does not materialize, you can renounce to your membership and obtain a refund of the paid fee.

The information here presented may be subject to specific modifications.

The course is pending of the final approval by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. The information here presented is provisional and may be subject to specific modifications.

In compliance with the provisions of Organic Law 15/1999, of December 13, Protection of Personal Data ("LOPD") and Royal Decree 1720/2007, of December 21, which approves the Regulation of Development of the Organic Law 15/1999, of December 13, of protection of personal data ("RDLOPD"), the Company informs that the access and use of the website does not imply a collection of personal data of the User by the Society. However, the data voluntarily provided by the User will be incorporated for processing into a file duly registered, owned by the Company, with the purpose of processing the registration in the Master by the User, as well as sending commercial or advertising information via ordinary or electronic to its users about services that may be of interest to you.

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WORKFLOW

IMPARTITION OF SUBJECTS

Each subject will be taught in 12 weeks: the first one of presentation, 10 of teaching activity, and the last one of final evaluation. The courses will be arranged in 10 subjects. Each subject will be worked for a week.

Continuous evaluation: Each subject will have 5 evaluative tests (every two weeks), all of them with the same weight in the final grade (if there is no final test, each of the 5 evaluative tests would have a weight of 20% of the final grade).

Each subject will have a final evaluation test that cannot have a weight higher than 50% of the final grade.

PRESENTIAL STAGE / ON-SITE WORK

Two weeks of 'stage' (work practices) in Tarragona to give a final and joint reading of all the subjects and work on an intensive case study. This includes a visit to the International Court of Justice and other international institutions in The Hague.

The registration includes the contents but not the travel or accommodation expenses.

Exceptionally, and for the consideration of the Academic Committee, this period will be validated by accredited comparable activities.

FINAL DEGREE WORK

At the beginning of the second semester (September 2018) all students must present a proposal of topic and a research scheme to their tutors according with the instructions provided.

Each student will be assigned a tutor for the direction of their research work.

This work will be about an unprecedented or very little worked subject, it will have an extension of more than 60 pages and it will be adapted to the structure and citation norms of the university research works.

TEMARY

MATERIAL SCOPE

The idea is to have a Master focused (and which has as a guiding thread) in the International Criminal Court, use training to able students to exercise in/and before the International Criminal Court and to use the national mechanisms of International Criminal Justice. It will open the possibility of doing internships (optional) in different international institutions related to the themes of the Master.

CALENDAR

MATERIAL STRUCTURE

The structure of the Master consist in 9 courses divided in three blocks plus a final Project. A Master’s Degree needs to have a minimum of 60 credits. Those would be as follows.

TFM

Final Project

10 ECTS

Internships

On-site practices

5 ECTS

I.-Fundamentals of Universal Justice

Introduction to the International Society, International Law and International Relations

5 ECTS

International Protection of Human Rights

5 ECTS

International Humanitarian Law

5 ECTS

II.- Theoretical Framework of the Criminal Justice

Bases and fundamentals of Universal Justice

The ICC and other international jurisdictional institutions

5 ECTS

Material International Criminal Law

5 ECTS

III.-International Procedural Practice

Procedures before ICC and other international jurisdictional institutions

5 ECTS

Jurisprudence of the ICC and other international jurisdictional institutions

5 ECTS

Legal Deontology and practice before the ICC and other jurisdictional institutions

OTHER PROFESSORS

Dr. Santiago Castellà Surribas, Professor of International Public Law and International Relations of the Rovira i Virgili University.

TEACHING PERIOD

16th April 2018 to 16th July 2018. 1 week of presentation, 10 weeks of consecutive teaching and 1 final week of evaluation/retrieval with a previous week off.

EVALUATION

5 evaluative tests with a load of 20% on the final grade. There is no final test. Delivery of suspended or non-delivered works: last week (9 of July).

PROGRAM

Background and foundations of the international protection of Human Rights: History of the international protection of human rights.

Sources of International Law of Human Rights and the evolution and progressive interpretation of the protection of human rights.

International Responsibility of the States with regard to the protection of human rights: Criteria of State responsibility for international illicit acts; Theories on the responsibility of States for third party acts and Case analysis.

International Systems for the Protection of Human Rights: Universal System: ONU.

Regional Systems for the International Protection of Human Rights: Europe, America and Africa.

International Mechanisms for the Protection of Human Rights (I): Conventional mechanisms.

International Mechanisms for the Protection of Human Rights (II): extra-conventional mechanisms in the universal system.

International Mechanisms for the Protection of Human Rights (III): Individual petitions system before the regional systems.

Procedure before the international systems for the protection of Human Rights: Criteria of competence and admissibility before the committees of the ONU, before the regional systems, the preliminary procedure and in-depth analysis to establish the international responsibility of the States.

OTHER PROFESSORS

Sr. Blas J. Imbroda Ortiz, President of the ICB, Professor of Law at the University of Granada and Dean of the Illustrious Bar Association of Melilla.

TEACHING PERIOD

21st of January 2019 to 22nd of April 2019. 1 week of presentation, 10 weeks of consecutive teaching and 1 final week of evaluation/retrieval with a previous week off.

EVALUATION

5 evaluative tests with a load of 20% on the final grade. There is no final test. Delivery of suspended or non-delivered works: last week (15th of April 2019).

PROGRAM

The importance of jurisprudence as a source of International Criminal Law (concept, social and legal impact, relations with other sources of International Criminal Law, jurisprudence as a source of International Criminal Law itself).

The method of analysis (the different forms of analysis between continental law and case law, and explanation of the "template" with the items to follow in the analysis of cases).

First practice on the Nuremberg Proceedings.

Sentence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia / Rwanda.